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Natural fluctuations of hepatitis C viral load in a homogeneous patient population: A prospective study

✍ Scribed by Liam Fanning; Elizabeth Kenny-Walsh; John Levis; Kingshuk Roy Choudhury; Bridin Cannon; Margaret Sheehan; Michael Whelton; Fergus Shanahan

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 156 KB
Volume: 31
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510310133

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The study group defined here is part of a previously wellcharacterized cohort of women infected with HCV 1b-contaminated Abbreviations: HCV, hepatitis C virus; RT-PCR, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.

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